CATIA V6 [3DXML] Reader
The CATIA V6 Reader provides full access to the assembly, visualization, view, and PMI data stored within a particular CATIA V6 file. A file does not need to have a particular extension to be read correctly by HOOPS Exchange however the file extension of CATIA V6 files that you can expect to be loaded by HOOPS Exchange is:
- .3DXML
Our readers are updated to the latest released version within 90 days of the release of the authoring software. You can see the exact version supported in the current release here.
Assembly
The full definition of the assembly tree is supported. However, we don't currently support incremental load for our CATIA V6 reader.
B-rep
We don't currently support B-rep data for our CATIA V6 reader.
Visualization
The CATIA V6 reader accesses and interprets the tessellation data in the file. CATIA V6 can contain tessellation in a few different forms. Our reader can read XML and static tessellation, but dynamic tessellation is not supported.
Views
There are two types of views supported in CATIA V6:
- Annotation views: A view plane in addition to visibilities that are applied to the PMI entities
- Capture views: A full camera definition, visibilities applied to PMI, visibilities and transformations that can be applied to components in the assembly and the optional definition of section planes.
Both types of views are fully supported by HOOPS Exchange.
PMI
The CATIA V6 reader provides access to the PMI information within a 3DXML file. The PMI data is only presented in a visual form and so a semantic definition is not available. The different PMI types available in 3DXML are:
The list of specific PMI types supported is listed below:
- Datum
- Datum Target
- Dimension
- Dimension (Basic)
- Dimension (Coordinate)
- Dimension (Cumulated)
- Dimension (Curvlinear)
- Dimension (Stacked)
- Distance
- Flags
- Feature Control Frame
- Geometrical Tolerance
- Note Object Attribute (Text)
- Note Object Attribute (Ditto)
- Roughness
- Weld
Miscellaneous
Construction geometries are handled by the reader.
Import options specific to CATIA V6
None
Limitations
No support for multiple sections views.